The old house next to the Gardiner windmill is empty with an abandoned air. I peeked through the window to see a dusty and crumbling interior. On the exterior, the peeling shutters with their windmill cutouts are still charming. A post card that I discovered provides a clue to the home's long history. The image on the card is described as the "South End Windmill and Summer Home of Percy Moran". Member of the well known family of artists, Percy Moran may have summered here, but the home is part of the original Gardiner homestead. The property had been passed down by generations of the Gardiner family since the Village's founding in the 1600s until its recent sale to the town of East Hampton. How amazing is that?